I took a walk to the neighborhood LFL today & scored this. Just checked the reviews on here, another confusing dragon book. Just what I needed 😅
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The Ruin of Kings | 
I took a walk to the neighborhood LFL today & scored this. Just checked the reviews on here, another confusing dragon book. Just what I needed 😅
Okay, second time I tried to like this book. Finished it but I hated the split timeline which I found needlessly complicating. I'm done.
#Roll100
@PuddleJumper
Finally starting to work my way through my book club book. I can see why reviews have said it is confusing but so far I am really enjoying it.
“Except real evil isn‘t a demon or a rogue wizard. Real evil is an empire like Quur, a society that feeds on its poor and its oppressed like a mother eating her own children. Demons and monsters are obvious; we‘ll always band together to fight them off. But real evil, insidious evil, is what let‘s us just walk away from another person‘s pain and say, well that‘s none of my business.”
“This was a tree to hold up the whole world, the sort of place where Galava must live, if any place were consecrated to her. It seemed ageless and immortal, a tree that had always and would always exist. Naturally, we were setting it on fire.”
so-soThe world building is good it feels like you've dropped into a fully formed complicated world, where politics & family demand allegiances, create conflict & assume power. But the structure! Chapters form alternating time lines which break the reading flow pulling you reluctantly away from a plot line & create confusion. At times I was super lost, frustrated and close to giving up! Written in a different format and I think id be heading into bk 2.
Even Woodford is struggling to keep up with this one 🤨
I‘m about half way through this book and I‘m just not sure …… sophisticated snacks help though! And only the Japanese would ensure the box turns into a neat little snack holder - holding them at just the right grabbable angle! 👍🏼
Just over halfway and loving this. It is a little bit hard to follow due to the amount of characters and the family histories but I think im starting to get to grips with it all. So good! 😍
📚Tagged, just added it last week. Not sure if/when I‘ll get around to reading it
🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉 - watermelon
🤩 Not Your Average Hot Guy - because it sounds a lot of fun
💞My dog, my husband (I guess). I usually don‘t think about things I‘m grateful for 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
#WondrousWednesday - thanks for the tag @ICantImReading
#TBRPile 📚 “When they brought me up to the auction block, I looked out over the crowd and thought: I would kill you all if I had a knife.”
pickThis book took me forever to finish and it has seen me through 2 major book slumps! But I finally finished it and I liked it! It had a good mix of adventure and politics. It‘s confusing at first but over all, it was good.
pickI enjoyed the heck out of this book. The format took me a little while to get used to, but as soon as I did, I fell fully immersed into the world. I found it fascinating how the story was about the same person, Kieran, but told from his POV and the POV of those surrounding him in life (with an interesting twist). I enjoyed the characters and the storyline.
I am posting one book per day from my to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new - don‘t judge me I have a lot of books.
Join the fun if you want. This is day 121.
#bookstoread
#tbrpile
#bookstagram
pickThis was a rec by a friend on IG & man it was a lot. It‘s very good but a lot of info & heavy subjects. Its an adult fantasy that‘s light on romance if that‘s what you want. We get duel perspectives & a narrator in a way. A prince who grew up poor who doesn‘t want to be a part of the royals. There‘s magic, curses, shifters & that‘s such a light description of this massive book; I will have to reread before picking up book 2.
#bookspinbingo
I was listening to this book a while ago but didn't finish before my loan returned to the library. I realized that I wasn't really enjoying or taking in the book, so I'm going to go ahead and drop it. It's not a bad book by any means. The world and gods and characters seem very interesting.
pickI liked this book and am looking forward to book 2. Great cast of characters and a solid plot. It is rather complex with so many characters. I wished I had taken some notes. I think I missed a few things or didn't totally understand a few things that happened. Still a solid read. 4⭐
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
🎧 Currently listening to the Tagged book. Finished The World We Know Yesterday and can't decide on what physical book I want to read next.
📚 On the Island
📚 A feel good story or a read that is light/humorous
#sundayfunday @ozma.of.oz
🎧 Full Cast most times. There have been a few exceptions.
🎧 Tim Gerald Reynolds he narrated Red Rising.
🎧 Tagged
#ThoughtfulThursday @MoonWitch94
👜 My MIL gave me a purse with a picture of a horse on it. Love it and use it everyday.
🏜 Yes. The Arabian Desert, The Mojave Desert, The Chihuahuan Desert and The Sonoran Desert.
📚 Tagged and Axiom's End and I like both.
#JubilantJuly @Andrew65
It was so hot yesterday I stayed in doors most of the day and read. Enjoying both books.
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
📚 Tagged
📚 A Memory Called Empire
📚 A Court of Wings and Ruin
21 books in May. The tagged book was a definite favorite—surprised by how much I liked it. Whether writing comics, nonfiction, or, in this case, Eve Ewing always impresses. Ahsoka was a fitting, and enjoyable, continuation of Ahsoka‘s journey & a fantastic bridge between The Clone Wars & Rebels. The Importance of Being Earnest is Oscar Wilde at his best. Finally, Burial Rites is most excellent historical fiction.
pickWow. What a debut. So good. So, so good. If you like your fantasy dark with lots of twists & turns, intrigue & adventure, danger & more danger, all the shades of grey & not always black & white/good & evil (although sometimes it‘s obvious), you might well enjoy this book. I sure did. It‘s the story of a boy who might be a hero or might not be, who might destroy the world while saving it or who might save it by destroying it. Now for the next book.
The book I'm listening to right now happens to fit nicely with the second #BookHunt scavenger hunt prompt of multiple POVs. The narration comes from a scholarly man who is gathering evidence about a certain event in the form of stories recorded by their tellers in a magical stone of some sort. Every now and then, the narrator fact checks the story or interjects when a character mistakes a fact he already knows. @ShyBookOwl
Dinner is in the oven, the sun is out and the patio is warm. Time to relax...
pickKihrin is a long lost prince whose destiny is to destroy the kingdom. There's immortals, magic, swords, dragons, goddesses, and prophecies. People seem to either love the series or hate it and I fall into the love camp.
I am reading both these books at once, and cannot keep them straight. They have literally the same plot.
In both, our heroes are royally born boys who have been secretly sold into slavery. They have been chained to oars and forced to row endlessly across the seas.
At the ends of the chapters I have just finished, they both find themselves shipwrecked on a frozen barren northern island.
pickIt‘s difficult to sum up this book as it‘s vast and intricate. The sassiness is one reason I kept turning the pages. The action flows and the characters quip. It was a lot of fun. 😄
I think if you‘re a fan of Patrick Rothfuss, or even a less formal/gruesome game of thrones, this book may be for you.
As for me, I loved it and am starting the second in the series ASAP.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#epicfantasy #fantasy #review
so-soI‘m really struggling to summarize how I feel about this. I loved it in the beginning. Great world-building and lots of puzzling pieces to put together. I was sure I was going to love it. But, the middle dragged, like the author was trying to do entirely too much and not following through. I enjoyed the ending enough to check out the next one, but almost gave up a few times in the middle.
Your Majesty,
Enclosed within is a full accounting of the events that led up to the burning of the Capital.
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl
Started two new books yesterday, both written by someone named Jen(n)?! Not completely sure about the tagged book - almost 600 pages long, 10+ pages of glossary, and loads of footnotes. I'm going to stick with it for at least 100 pages though and see what happens. But my brain wasn't handling it last night, so I switched to Well Met for some fluff!!
PS As you can see, I read my hardbacks sans jacket!
So, finishing the full available Song of Ice & Fire over the last 5 months clearly interfered with the intentions of reading the full Stormlight Archives. So next is the Stormlight Archives, and Christmas already brought plenty of extra stuff. Let‘s do this 😎
Both of these gorgeous fantasy books are over 500 pages each! 😍
#gratefulreads #over500pages @OriginalCyn620 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Books and cats and tea. The perfect Sunday! 📚+😽+☕=💕 #catsoflitsy #littenkitten
NYC is currently experiencing a heat wave. I like bringing a book with me on the train to stay cool! 🥵☀️📖
pan#unpopularopinion This had potential, but I think the author tried to be too clever. I don't object to multiple POVs as a rule, but this is basically Kihrin's story, told by three different people, including Kihrin. I found most of it boring and it's difficult to follow the time jumps, perspective shifts, footnotes, and similarly named characters in audio. It might work better in print. I don't care enough to try or read more in the series.
panUgh this was a monster of a book!! I finished it because it was for book club, but if it wasn‘t I would have bailed. The storyline is so confusing and all of the names of characters are similar. I can‘t even tell you what the book was about to be honest-that‘s how bad it was for me.
